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Originally Posted by Calgary '89
I read it and she actually gives 3 examples, the Chappelle piece, mandatory vaxx story and the trouble in booking a coloured conservative like Jamil Jivani. She complains that there's 2 Covid stories per day and less coverage on the wealth gap and opioid crisis as well, so chalk that up to a general complaint about for-profit news outlets these days. CBC isn't for-profit.
She also talks about how subtlety . You really can't ignore nuance in any of these 'hit piece' type of articles cuz it's really about grey area instead of white and black.
Other than repeating what she said in her article, it reads like she just handled the reporters "gotcha" questions which is something reporters do. We just saw Jim Matheson do the same thing with Leon Draistaitl.
If you need proof after proof that her opinion is real, I dunno what to tell you.
To me her opinion sounds in line with the stuff that's talked about in Real Time on HBO. For everything extra about Bill Maher, he does make strong points about how illiberal liberalism is these days.
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You identify three things:
1) Chappelle story
2) Vaccines
3) Jamil Javani
The host pushes here on all three:
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Henley: The examples in the piece that I think really matter are the Dave Chappelle example and also the vaccine mandates. Those are two stories where I really didn’t see an appetite, and I just didn’t see a lot of opposing views on those.
Brown: Did you work on those stories?
Henley: On Ontario Morning, no, we did not work on the Dave Chappelle story. The vaccine mandates, I absolutely worked on that story.
Brown: And what was forbidden speech on the vaccine mandates?
Henley: It’s not about forbidden speech. This is not how it works.
Brown: Or forbidden arguments or forbidden guests?
Henley: I’m not saying I’m being censored. That is not what I’m saying at all.
Brown: But you are saying in your piece that certain ideas were not welcome, and you just told me certain guests were not welcome.
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So she had nothing to do with Chappelle story. There was no forbidden speech about vaccines.
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Brown: You tried to get Jamil Jivani on the air, and you were told no?
Henley: It’s not how it works at all. It’s the conversations about who we’re gonna talk to and who we’re not gonna to talk to. This stuff is very subtle, and it’s also something that I think that the audiences can pick up on immediately. I’m not arguing that we should not cover identity stories. What I’m arguing is that we need to increase the perspectives that we are showing and that we are talking about.
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And she never tried to get Jamil Javani on air.